Factors that influence hatching in Diabrotica longicornis (Say)

Artificial diet and dispause studies on corn rootworms

“…Diapause has since taken on a much broader meaning, now being applied to developmental arrest of both embryonic and postembryonic stages of development. Excellent reviews on earlier meanings of the term have been given (Lees, 1955;Cunningham, 1963). Beck and Alexander (1964) pointed out two principal schemes that have been advanced to explain diapause develop ment: (l) developmental Inhibitor theories, and (2) bio chemical defect theories.…”